All the North Fork Park Roads are bike ridable, little patches of snow but they are probably gone by today!
The Ktunaxa name for glacier lily is maxa. Continue reading “Bike Rides to Bowman, Kintla and Logging”
Tag: Glacier Park
Spring Ride and Float
Easter Sunday has been the best day so far this spring! Camas Road is still closed for cars and GTTSR at Lake McDougall Lodge. The bike ride turned out to be 70 miles (112km) to the end of the road and back- made for a happy day! The river is running beautifully. I think I might be done skiing!
a taste of winter
It never gets old to go out on cross country skis and explore some of my back yard, especially in a winter that you can call just that!
Bowman Lake
Calypsos and Clematis were out all along the Bowman Lake Trail
Calypso Orchids
Spring Time at Bowman Lake
Clematis all over the shore
Spring runoff is painting the water
Head of Bowman Lake
Looking down the lake
across the lake along Bowman Lake Trail
Spring Day at Bowman Lake
Bike Rafting
There are very few other things I’d rather do on a hot spring day than to ride my bike past the road closure and hop on the river to float back to the Hostel. The Hostel will be open next month: Time to Play!
Pack rafting
from Round Prairie to the Hostel
with the bike on the
north fork of the flathead river
Bowman, Kintla and GTTSR
The first bike rides of the season are always a treat!
a canoe was missing in this photo
couple of loons
evening light at the lake
always a treat
You can barley make out the plowed road passed this slide…
I had about enough at this big slide
Heavens Peak and the Upper McDonald Creek Valley
Washout at Anaconda Creek
Flat tire- Wach auf!
Prairie Crocus
Kintla Lake on a stormy day
Upper Kintla rapids from the inside road
Shooting Stars
Hiking and Biking season has just started
There is still plenty of snow patches and lots of mud around but the hiking is going and riding a bike into Big Prairie makes me appreciates spring and the coming summer. A truly beautiful weekend to be outdoors.
Thanks for a great season!
we are wandering of into the snow and will see you again net summer, thank you all for a wonderful summer season!
Going-to-the-sun IV
Another great ride up the sun road that last weekend in May. I dragged Philipp from Germany along. He had fun getting out of the cleats when we stopped 🙂 No Bears, Bighorns or Marmots along the road during this ride but we saw a Mama Black Bear with her three cubs on our way back on the Camas Road.
Numa Lookout
Really a cold breeze up by the lookout but a beautiful early hike this year. Only a little bit of snow left.
GTTSR The Third
This time around I almost didn’t make it to Oberlin Bend, where the plows were parked: one of my chain links broke just below Haystack Butte. I was looking at the prospect of limping my trusted Tourmallet back, not worried about the downhill but I had parked way back at Lake McDonald Lodge 🙁
As it happens first guy I asked for a chain breaker had one along and the ride and day was saved! Thank you Mike!
Besides bumping into friends I saw my share of flowers, sheep and a marmot.
GTTSR #2
Another great weekend for riding the Going-to-the-sun road. Besides Glacier Lilies this
time around we saw Trilliums, Spring Beauties, Paintbrushes and lots of varieties of violets. Three Bighorn Rams crossed the road just above the Weeping Wall, heading up, where else? Photos of the equipment, Clements Moutain and looking north up into the McDonald Valley and over Flattop Mountain.